Another rant about ‘theopolitics’ below:

No, his mind is not for rent
To any God or government.
Always hopeful, yet discontent,
He knows changes aren’t permanent,
But change is….

from ‘Tom Sawyer’ by Rush

Our minds better not be ‘for rent’. We better be sold out to Jesus Christ. Why do I reinforce this? Because the renting has happened.

I was recently made aware of this article about a weekend happening at a upscale Southern Baptist church in Louisville where a political rally is being held to stop the “unprecedented filibuster of people of faith.”

I immediately thought about the Rush lyrics because this theopolitical mentality has clearly shown that the church body has not sold out to Jesus, but instead rented out their being to a God who is only sovereign when the right politicians are in office and rented out their soul to a government that will evangelize by legislation and do the job the church is supposed to do. In fact, one poster (who also hosts a major Christian blog) calls it like it is in his comment to the same article when he mentions the ‘official Christian perspective’ consisting of the “dissenters are all to be despised” and that Christians should:

Get in line to hear what issue Pope Benedobson will tell you what to be mad about next.

What will eventually happen is that the religious right Christians will, in the terms of the song be “always hopeful, yet discontent” either to no change taking place or not enough change is happening. What will happen next, since the majority of the theopolitical Christian mind is rented, will the ‘landlord’ of themselves kick out the ‘tenant of trouble’ and settle for an occupant of a purpose driven, seeker-sensitive pastor turned politician or will they finally get sold out to Jesus and realize that evangelism, signs and wonders, miracles, power, and authority is given to those who repent and seek his face and not those who worship the numbers, money, influence, affluence, and pragmatism the modern church has eroded to.